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| 2014 (April) || || "In April 2014, Steven Wise, president of the Nonhuman Rights Project, told The Takeaway that science proves that these apes, alongside elephants, cetaceans like dolphins and whales, and African grey parrots, are among a class of nonhuman animals that exhibit high cognitive ability. He argues that they're self-aware, they experience pain and joy and they suffer terribly from confinement."<ref>{{cite web |title=Should Animals Have The Same Rights As People? |url=https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/are-animals-persons-too |website=wnycstudios.org |accessdate=16 October 2018}}</ref> ||
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| 2014 (December) || || The New York State Supreme Court, Apellate Division, rules in a case where NhRP, representing a chimpanzee called Tommy, calls for the court to "enlarge the common-law definition of 'person' in order to afford legal rights to an animal".<ref>{{cite book |title=Legal Personhood: Animals, Artificial Intelligence and the Unborn |edition=Visa A.J. Kurki, Tomasz Pietrzykowski |url=https://books.google.com.ar/books?id=rLF3DgAAQBAJ&pg=PA70&lpg=PA70&dq=%22Nonhuman+Rights+Project%22++%222007..2017%22&source=bl&ots=io_KZaV-rF&sig=j3pWH0fLuTMosV06026ePZ0_1Lc&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwil4e7s7IneAhVEk5AKHRRwC60Q6AEwBnoECAEQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22Nonhuman%20Rights%20Project%22%20%20%222007..2017%22&f=false}}</ref> ||
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| 2015 || || NhRP petitions the Supreme Court of New York State for a writ of habeas corpus on behalf of two chimpanzees, Hercules and Leo, in an attempt to secure their release from the State University of New York to a sanctuary in {{w|Florida}}.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Rees |first1=Paul A. |title=The Laws Protecting Animals and Ecosystems |url=https://books.google.com.ar/books?id=C-g2DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA318&lpg=PA318&dq=Nonhuman+Rights+Project+%22in+2007..2017%22&source=bl&ots=fZFh6rnlm0&sig=JOXb9smBxrI5vWjKDo8tAwWFGGc&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiK9tS_poneAhWBiJAKHRs4BjEQ6AEwDHoECAUQAQ#v=onepage&q=Nonhuman%20Rights%20Project%20%22in%202007..2017%22&f=false}}</ref> In April, NhRP is granted an order to show cause and writ of habeas corpus on behald of the two chimpanzees.<ref>{{cite book |title=Norm Antipreneurs and the Politics of Resistance to Global Normative Change |edition=Alan Bloomfield, Shirley V. Scott |url=https://books.google.com.ar/books?id=szQlDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA115&lpg=PA115&dq=%22Nonhuman+Rights+Project%22++%222007..2017%22&source=bl&ots=mRtCJnYtEz&sig=dbx5UiJWCLNeKJ9XzVLlE9tc9lU&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwil4e7s7IneAhVEk5AKHRRwC60Q6AEwBXoECAYQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22Nonhuman%20Rights%20Project%22%20%20%222007..2017%22&f=false}}</ref> ||
